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Federal border protection officials are having a temporary detention center built near El Paso to accommodate hundreds of families and unaccompanied children entering the country illegally. The El Paso Times reports the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is having the center...

Two 10th-grade students at a San Antonio high school and their teacher have been reprimanded for the performance of a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump. The San Antonio Express-News reports the skit, titled "The Assassination of Donald Trump," was...

Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel has reached a deal with prosecutors for the conditional dismissal of a domestic assault case involving his former girlfriend. Defense attorney Jim Darnell said there was still work to be done to finalize the deal, but said after...

A program within the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is teaming up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve services for veterans. The Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program in the McCombs School of Business has...

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is reminding the public that the reward for Jaime Gonzalez, 37, has been increased to $10,000 for information leading to his capture if the tip comes in during the month of November. Gonzalez, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive...

The statewide gas price average in Texas is $1.95 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is five cents less than last week and three cents more per gallon than last year. Of the major metropolitan areas surveyed in the...

(Coppell, TX) – AAA Texas projects 3.9 million Texans will journey 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving, an increase of 160,000 travelers compared with last year. This represents a 4.3 percent increase over 2015 and the most Thanksgiving travelers since 2007. The...

AUSTIN, Texas – November 16, 2016 – The Texas Veterans Commission and Texas.gov are pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned Texas Veterans Portal , an important website that connects veterans and their families to the benefits and assistance they have earned as a result...

A minimally-constitutional public school funding system is not sitting well with one Austin State Senator. Fixing public education funding is a high priority for Austin State Senator Kirk Watson. Watson says a recent court ruling on Texas public school funding is not enough. “...